WiFi made into old Laptop hard drive!

OK, so its not go the best pictures, and it combines a few other things I learned... but here I go.

This is made from an old IBM laptop [2.5"] hard drive, a Zonet ZEW2500P USB Wireless Adapter, Home Made Antenna thing, USB, Hotglue, and luck.

BE CAREFUL! Some of these old drives, especially the Hitachi - IBM ones use glass platters... these are fragile, sharp and easy to break. The little silver slivers of glass will make your day very bad.

Step 1: Find a drive

This was easy for me, I bought 2 really old Toshiba laptops at a garage sale, one works, one was dead with it's 720MB hard drive. That's what I used.

The drive is held together with tiny T6 torx screws. I picked up a multi-driver thing at Radio Shack to get them out with, it's handy for cell phones too!

I had to grind some of the inside out, also the motor needs to be removed. I used a socket that the spindle fit inside of and a big hammer with a punch on the back to literally break it off the case.  This worked very well, and gave me a lot of space inside to fir the card.

Comments

[fireproofshark]

lovin the laptop i planned to do the same to mine awhile ago bought the vinyl sticker sheets and everything but never got round to it but did umbrella corp out my  old gamecube. nice ible as well

[morganlowe]

Haha, All that is on my picasa account : http://picasaweb.google.com/Morganlionpix  I own a plotter too, never did much with selling vinyl but may start doing that.

[morganlowe]

Everyone commenting on the laptop!  Its modded too, hardware...  Check it out!  Anyways, Acer makes me mad! They wont sell me parts! Thank you much for looking!

[inventordude14]

  nice netbook! I have a blue one by acer 

[The Ideanator]

Hehehe, nice touch to the laptop. Good ible too, it has promise.